c'MON Mike. There are no thugs in the Bay Area. It's a myth. All that drama at pretty much any sporting event out here is perpetrated by space (or illegal) aliens who fly back to their home planet (unless they are of the illegal variety in which case they rent an apartment in San Jose) undetected.

The locals out here are simply not violent. Don't believe the news. Oakland, Richmond, Vallejo, Stockton, San Leandro...heck man, this is precisely where you'd want your mother to live...

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The Gilroy Police Department is releasing a mug shot Thursday of a suspected murderer charged in an assault case dating back to April 2010. The suspect, Russell Edward Garcia, has been in custody at the Santa Clara County Jail on unrelated charges since about May 2011.

On January 25, 2012 the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office filed Murder and Assault with a Deadly Weapon charges against Garcia.

Garcia is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday January 27, 2012 on the charges.

On April 13, 2010 at approximately 2215 hours, Gilroy PD officers responded to a call of a disturbance in the 1000 block of Montebello Dr. When the officers arrived at the scene they found the first victim, 75-year-old Marcelino Cardenas, lying on a couch in the living room with severe head injuries and a second victim lying in the kitchen area with major injuries to his legs. The initial investigation revealed that the suspect (unknown at the time) attacked both parties with a baseball bat.

Cardenas succumbed to the injuries he sustained as a result of the assault and was pronounced deceased on April 25, 2010. The second victim, whose name is being withheld, was transported to a Bay Area trauma hospital and was later released after medical treatment.

Gilroy Police Detectives have worked diligently on this case since it occurred, continuing the investigation as additional information was developed by detectives.

Anyone with information about this case is encouraged to contact Gilroy Detective Michael Bolton at 408-846-0350. Parties wishing to remain anonymous may call We-Tip at 1-800-782-7463 (800-78-Crime).

REDWOOD CITY (KRON)--A 19-year-old Redwood City high school student accused of attempting to rape his former teacher is facing four felony charges.

Authorities say David Velasquez was charged Wednesday with kidnapping to commit rape, criminal threats, false imprisonment and assault to commit rape in connection with an attempted attack against a 29-year-old San Francisco woman Monday night.

According to police, Velazquez brandished a knife at the victim in the garage of Summit Preparatory High School and forced the woman toward her car. Police say Velasquez ran off after he was interrupted by another teacher who came upon the scene.

Velasquez, who is being held in San Mateo County Jail on $1 million bail is scheduled to appear in court to enter a plea on Feb. 8.

BERKELEY (BCN) -- The victim of a fatal shooting in Berkeley Thursday night has been identified as 32-year-old Kenneth Warren, police said Friday.

The shooting was reported at about 6:50 p.m. Thursday in the 3000 block of Shattuck Avenue, near Emerson Street.

Police Lt. Dave Frankel said Warren, a Hercules resident, worked near the shooting site at Don's Headquarters barber shop at 3019 Shattuck Ave.

Warren was struck multiple times by the gunfire, Frankel said.

He said police don't have any information about suspects or a motive in the shooting except to say that they don't think it was a random incident.

The shooting was Berkeley's first homicide of the year.

There have been several other homicides in the vicinity of Emerson Street and Shattuck Avenue in recent years.

On Sept. 12, 2010, 35-year-old Adolfo Ignacio Celedon of Chile, who was walking with his girlfriend, was fatally shot at the corner of Emerson and Adeline streets. The case hasn't been solved.

On Oct. 6, 2008, Davon Faison, who was 15 at the time, fatally shot his father, 40-year-old Charles Faison, at the family's residence at 2022 Emerson St., which is between Shattuck Avenue and Adeline Street.

Davon was convicted of murder in juvenile court and will be held at a juvenile facility until he turns 25.

On Oct. 10, 2007, police found 9-year-old Amir Hassan dead at an apartment at 3011 Shattuck Ave., near Emerson Street, and said he may have been dead for at least 36 hours.

The boy's mother, Misti Hassan, later pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 11 years in state prison.

SAN LEANDRO (KRON)--A man whose body was found hanging at the Port of Oakland over the weekend has been identified as a suspect in a homicide that took place in San Leandro on Friday.

Police say at about 4:20 p.m. Saturday, the body of 19-year-old Henry Leon was found hanging from a structure off of Maritime Street. Police say the incident is being investigated as a suicide.

According to police, Leon was a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl Friday evening. Police say the stabbing was reported at about 6:20 p.m. in the 1900 block of Pacific Avenue in San Leandro and that the victim was the mother of Leon's 9-month-old baby. According to police, officers found the victim suffering from multiple stab wounds to the torso. Police say despite efforts by medical personnel to save her, the victim died from her injuries.

The girl's name has not been released.

This kind of stuff happens WAY too much out here. To some I'm a "Pu$$y" for being concerned. I say you're an assinine Pu$$y if you aren't.